| I | MURRIANA
A Preface to the Work, in which Hegel and E.T.A. Hoffman's writing Cat, Murr, consider the Relations between Sensation and Consciousness | 13 |
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| II | THE AESTHETIC ANIMAL
Of the ancient Philosophers, Aristotle most especially, who, like the Cat, spoke much of Sensation, little of Consciousness | 21 |
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| III | THE PRIMARY POWER
Containing Aristotle's Doctrine of the common Sense, the master Faculty by which Animals sense that they are sensing | 31 |
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| IV | THE CIRCLE AND THE POINT
A Likeness of the Philosopher and his Pupils, which links the foregoing common Sense to Time and to Language too | 43 |
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| V | SENTIO ERGO SUM
In which Aristotle and the ancient Commentators explain why Beasts, so long as they live, cannot fail to notice that they exist | 57 |
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| VI | SLEEP
Containing a Discussion of Aristotle's Account of the insuperable Law which dictates that sentient Beings, if they are ever to be awake, must rest | 65 |
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| VII | AWAKENING
A short Chapter, in which Proust, Valéry, and Benjamin say much about the Disturbances at the End of Sleep | 73 |
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| VIII | COMPANY
The ancient Concept of Sunaisthēsis, the Faculty by which Animals feel when they feel and feel, no less, when they do not | 79 |
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| IX | HISTORIA ANIMALIUM
Containing a Remark or two on the Definition of human animal Nature, from Aristotle to Simplicius | 91 |
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| X | APPROPRIATION
A long Chapter, containing an important Notion, as well as the Doctrines of Chrysippus concerning a small Mussel and a Crab, smaller still | 101 |
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| XI | ELEMENTS OF ETHICS
A Treatise by Hierocles the Stoic, who sought to prove beyond all Doubt that "Beasts perceive themselves continuously" | 117 |
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| XII | THE HOUND AND THE HARE
Being the shortest Chapter in the Book | 127 |
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| XIII | LIFE SCIENCE
In which Augustine of Hippo invents the inner Sense, with some Help from Aristotle and the Stoics, among Others | 131 |
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| XIV | THE UNNAMED KING
In which Greek passes into Arabic, and the master Sense makes an unexpected Appearance in a Book by al-Fārābī | 143 |
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| XV | PSYCHOLOGY OF THE 449TH NIGHT
A short Chapter, in which a costly Slave discourses before a Caliph concerning the Powers contained in the Brain | 151 |
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| XVI | THE FOUNTAIN AND THE SOURCE
Another short Chapter, considering the Fortunes of the Arabic Doctrines among the Schoolmen and Others of their Age | 157 |
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| XVII | PERCEPTION EVERYWHERE
A long Chapter, on Descartes, Bacon, and most especially Campanella, who held the World to be a large sensing Animal | 163 |
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| XVIII | OF THE MERITS OF MISSILES
In which Leibniz differs from Descartes and from Locke, calling to Mind slow yet forceful Movements most worthy of Attention | 179 |
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| XIX | THORNS
Another long Chapter, Treating of Leibniz on Perception, Apperception, and the Existence of infinitely small and slightly sharp Sensations | 193 |
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| XX | TO MYSELF; OR, THE GREAT DANE
In which a fearsome Dog famously leaps upon Jean-Jacques Rousseau, putting an End to an otherwise solitary Walk | 211 |
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| XXI | OF FLYING CREATURES
Wherein Avicenna, Condillac, and Maine de Biran relate startling Findings made by Men and Statues suspended in Space | 219 |
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| XXII | COENAESTHESIS
On the medical Idea of the common Feeling, the bodily Sense by which animate Beings dimly perceive that they are alive | 237 |
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| XXIII | PHANTOMS
In which Bodies feel Parts they do not possess, and alternately fail to feel those Parts that are truly theirs | 253 |
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| XXIV | THE ANAESTHETIC ANIMAL
Of modern Psychiatry and its Discovery of People who sense, with much Conviction, that they do not exist | 271 |
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| XXV | UNTOUCHABLE
An End to the Work, containing what the Reader may, perhaps, expect to find in it | 291 |
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| Notes | 301 |
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| Bibliography | 349 |
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| Index | 373 |
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